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Dennis F. has passed. I don't anything else yet but I'm sure he's appreciate the thoughts of those of us who knew him. Let's stay on-topic, shall we ... as he's have wished, I'm sure.

Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education Philosophy Editorial News Keywords: GRAMSCI Source: www.petersnet Published: Still looking Author: Frank Morriss Posted on 07/18/2001 02:51:34 PDT by Askel5 The On-Going Marxist March Against The Western Mind By Frank Morriss Shortly after the Second Vatican Council, this writer had a public discussion with two young priests from Holland. They were in this country touting the new theology of Church, one which emphasized social liberation, a social mission to the powerless and impoverished, to women, etc. The Dutch priests had little or no concern for doctrine or Catholic tradition,...

He is very ill. Please do not post to this thread or bump him at all. I am logging out until I return to ask a Mod to delete the thread. I know he would be angry for my doing this. Best to all and thank you for keeping him in your thoughts right now. A5.

Our Obligation of Love Conclusion to "That Pro-Life Schtick"New Orleans, Louisiana | January 13, 1999 Our Lord tells a story of the Good Samaritan. And in doing so, He introduced a Moral Revolution into a world that, until He spoke, had seen only the glory of Pride and Strength and Power and not the glory of Love and Mercy and Compassion. But He told us that it was our responsibility not just to do the bidding of those who have the strength to make us do it but rather to Respond and to be governed by the plight of...

Galatoire's evening turns violent Doctor seriously hurt; tourist is charged A well-known doctor and art collector suffered a fractured skull and brain damage Sunday night after a lighthearted evening at Galatoire's turned suddenly and mysteriously ugly. Retired radiologist Russell Albright, 69, remained in Charity Hospital on Tuesday after another Galatoire's patron, a visitor from Texas, allegedly pushed him to the pavement outside the fashionable Bourbon Street restaurant at about 8 p.m., police spokesman Sgt. Paul Accardo said. .... Another Galatoire's insider who was at the restaurant at the time of the incident said he didn't realize what had happened...

There Are No Loopholes in Law to Prosecute the Sale of Baby Body Parts Crime/Corruption News Keywords: FETAL BODY PARTS AND ABORTION Source: Covenant Published: 04/03/00 Author: Jim Rudd Posted on 04/05/2000 07:07:59 PDT by truthandlife Remember the law that makes it a felony to purchase or sell aborted baby parts for profit? It's part of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993. You would think with all of the pro-life lobbying groups in Washington, D.C., we would be hearing a multitude of voices crying out from the rooftops demanding a nationwide investigation to bring these baby...

Gabriel Marcel Philosophy Marcel was concerned that scientific thinking had bankrupted human experience. Scientific thinking, with its reductionism and technicality, avoids the mystery of life in favor of ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’. In modernity, man has, “…become unsure of his own essence and a stranger to himself.”(4) He has divorced himself from fundamental experience by turning to objective analysis. As a result, “the dignity and sacredness of being” is replaced by “the idea of function.” Man views himself as a functional being, incorporated into biological, mental, and social systems. As a result, “the capacity to love, to admire and to...

Anti-Defamation League Offers Schools Guidance for Negotiating the 'December Dilemma' Tue Nov 9, 2:39 PM ET To: National Desk and Education Reporter Contact: Myrna Shinbaum, 212-885-7747, Todd Gutnick, 212-885-7755, both of the Anti-Defamation League NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Each December schools and teachers are confronted with the question of how to approach the holidays without favoring one religious faith over another or making some students feel uncomfortable because their religious background is different from others. To help negotiate this "December dilemma," the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) provides public schools and government institutions with materials and information on...

Having enlisted in the aftermath of 911 (during which she spent most of her daily freetime for the next year and a half attending funerals), my sister finally was tapped by the Red Cross and is now on regular assignment with the their DAT response team which attends fires and assists victims. With these last two "Sunday Firebug Reports," I have decided renters' insurance is my first priority among bills this month. Just a friendly reminder to all those who -- like me -- don't pay as much attention to such practicalities as they should. (I get a kick...

[T]he real work in this part of your mental prayer is always going to be up to you and you alone. Nobody in the world can really apply personally any truth to your life except you yourself. Nobody knows you from the inside out the way you know yourself. But the man who is brave enough to try to look honestly at himself and strong enough to try to do something about really changing himself -- that man can change the world Nota Bene: From what I can tell, this book of meditations was designed for (Young) Men. I...

Torture Can Be Used to Detain U.S. Enemies By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. military panels reviewing the detention of foreigners as enemy combatants are allowed to use evidence gained by torture in deciding whether to keep them imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the government conceded in court Thursday. The acknowledgment by Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Boyle came during a U.S. District Court hearing on lawsuits brought by some of the 550 foreigners imprisoned at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The lawsuits challenge their detention without charges for up to three...

Our man in the US: Israel uses TV show to find its best spin doctor Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv Saturday November 27, 2004The Guardian In some countries, reality television offers contestants fame and fortune. In Israel, the winner gets the equivalent of a job with the civil service. The latest reality programme to catch the country's imagination is The Ambassador, in which 14 contestants compete at defending Israel's reputation abroad. The winner will receive a year's contract at an agency set up in New York to promote the country in the United States. The show's popularity and the...

The Evil ... purposed and perpetuated ... by Political Murder Foreign Affairs News Keywords: ISRAEL PALESTINE Source: Modern Times Published: 1991 Author: Paul Johnson Posted on 06/17/2001 00:35:48 PDT by Askel5 Paul Johnson Modern Times (1991, Harper, pp. 480-486) …. But this, too, was in the future. At Bandung in 1955 the all conquering word still held sway. Among those present was the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, a handsome newcomer to the new humbug but already an accomplished rhetorician in his own right. Israel, undoubtedly an Afro-Asian state, was not represented at the Conference. Therein lay a long...

Progress, Problems On Divestment Jews, Protestants to travel to Israel together — but they can’t agree on a statement condemning terrorism. James D. Besser - Washington Correspondent Jews and mainline Christian activists who are considering “divestment” from Israel made some progress toward resolving their differences at a meeting in Washington last week — actually agreeing to travel to Israel together — but also ran into one big obstacle. And there were indications at the meeting that more Protestant groups could get on the divestment bandwagon. Despite a generally positive meeting at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, with...

Came across a list of CFR pundits recently ... A.M. RosenthalWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. George Will Charles Krauthammer R. Emmett Tyrrell Paul A. GigotGeorge Weigel Gen. P.X. Kelley Newt Gingrich Irving Kristol Michael Novak and Norman Podhoretz. I realize it's not earthshattering News -- or certainly should not be after his recent defenses of human farming and euthanasia -- that William F. Buckley, Jr. is a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. I had not realized George Weigel also was a member, however. (Though it certainly explains several passages in two of his books I read last summer,...

Question: If those whose names appear on "No Fly" or "Watch" lists are so dangerous they cannot be allowed to board an aircraft or are barred entry -- on sight -- to this nation, why don't we arrest them? It's not just that I, for one, would have liked to have seen Ted Kennedy imprisoned for the full three weeks it took to have his name removed from the No Fly list. It's that such cognitive dissonance practically SCREAMS the fact that we are either extremely stupid or extremely dishonest about how we are proceeding with this War on Terror...

AMENDMENT NO. 3807 Text of the Bill(Passed 96:2, 2 abstaining) Mr. LIEBERMAN. In the meantime, Mr. President, I would like to take this opportunity to say a word about amendment No. 3807 which Senator McCain and I offered yesterday. This is another of the elements of the Ð9/11 Commission report that was part of legislation Senator McCain and I introduced the day after Labor Day as a way to guarantee that all elements of the 9/11 report would be before the Senate. This one has to do with effective screening to keep terrorists out of America and away from...

In 1979, Pope John Paul II conferred on one of the authors (Sam Cohen) a peace medal for his invention, the neutron bomb. This was a small nuclear weapon designed to do its work, killing enemy military forces, without destroying a country’s infrastructure. The Nuclear Threat That Doesn't Exist – or Does It?by Sam Cohen and Joe Douglass March 11, 2003 U.S. administration spokesmen have said they have no evidence that Iraq has produced or acquired nuclear warheads. Implicit in their statements is the assumption that any such warheads would have to be fission warheads containing uranium or plutonium....

Telecommunications Act of 1996 Death of the Fairness Doctrine By Matthew Spitzer FACSNET Scholar Posted to FACSNET July 2, 1999 / revised Feb. 3, 2000 The fairness doctrine required broadcasters to cover controversial issues of public importance, and, when doing so, to provide reasonable opportunities for contrasting views on the controversial issue. Although the public justification for this two-part doctrine stood on the need to increase the quantity and quality of public affairs programming, the political purpose was likely to alter the tone of broadcast public affairs speech to be more centrist, and to blunt the force of trenchant...